Machinima Picking Up Steam?
Posted Thursday, February 8th, 2007, at 10:43 am Eastern by Mark Wallace
The Guardian Gamesblog has a post today about a machinima contest held recently by EA that awarded the best short film made in The Sims 2. The winning entry is actually being screened at cinemas in the UK. (It looks like the contest was UK-centric. Was there an earlier one in the US?) What with CBS airing a machinima promo ahead of the SuperBowl and Fox Atomic’s upcoming machinima contest, it certainly looks like the form is getting a lot more attention these days. Passing fancy, or emergence of a new medium? If the latter, it’s about time.
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